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C F C You were crying in the night and I could hear you G F C I could see your slender body shake and tremble C F C Am and there was nothing I could think to say or do to make you see C G C it's something wrong in me that makes me have to leave F C what I would give to be quiet beside you F C with the window open, a record playing low F C C/B Am to feel your skin between the clean bed linens G F C inside a room where sadness never goes C F C We were kissing in the kitchen, I was listening G F C to the coffee and the bacon drip and sizzle C F C Am there was flour on my hands from the biscuits in the pan C G C and I was happier than I thought I could be C F C Then I woke up on the road, my head was killing, G F C remembering some shit I read in Milton C F C how the mind is a place unto itself and in it Am C G C makes a heaven of hell and a hell of heaven F Em Bb G F C what I would give to be quiet beside you F C with the window open, a record playing low F C C/B Am to feel your skin between the clean bed linens G F C inside a room where sadness never goes